Grace Burnham, a doctor in New York, went to a remote plantation in Colombia in the 1890s to try to treat a boy with mental problems. The child seems to have an inexplicable ability and may have killed his mother. Burnham's intervention aroused opposition from religious figures in the village, who believed that the boy was possessed by evil spirits and was the source of local suffering and trouble. In an era when religious fanaticism prevailed and psychiatry was used as a trick, locals completely looked down on a non-local woman who came with scientific knowledge.
